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Bramah Museum of Tea & Coffee
Newest Review: ... in it had been boiled! By the 18th century tea and tea china were a feature of every aristocratic and middle-class English home. What would America be like today without the famous Boston Tea Party in 1773?! During the Industrial Revolution tea was recognized as an invaluable drink for the workforces. It was cheap and non-alcoholic and, mixed with milk and sugar, it provided the needed ... more  ... sustenance for the people working in factories for up to twelve hours a day. In the 19th century the East India Company began to pay for its tea with opium grown in India and smuggled to China. After the Opium Wars between Britain and China, the Briti...more |
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Bramah Museum of Tea & Coffee: Tea, please! (2044 words)
by - written on 01/03/01 (Very useful, 330 readings)
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All tourists who do the grand sightseeing tour in London get very close to the Bramah Tea&Coffee Museum. Indeed? And where’s that? After visiting the Tower, we cross the Tower Bridge, turn left into Butlers Wharf and there it is, just beside the Design Museum (which is also worth seeing, but not today!). I don’t know how often I’ve been to London, 12 or 13 times perhaps, I’ve seen all the ‘must sees’, now I re-visit my favourite sights, like good friends, and allow myself the luxury of discovering real treats, off the trodden path and far from the madding crowd. First I had to work through a ... Read the complete review
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